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Providing readers with the unusual opportunity to enter into the
extraordinary mind of a patriot immediately before the Revolution,
the Portrait of a Patriot series presents the major papers of the
Boston lawyer and patriot penman Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775). In
volume 2 of the series we are introduced to Quincy's Legal
Commonplace Book; the companion of his Political Commonplace Book
from volume 1, the Legal Commonplace Book illustrates the
systematic program of reading through which aspiring young lawyers
learned their trade in colonial New England. In the accompanying
introduction, coeditor Daniel R. Coquillette explains how the
system of legal apprenticeship worked in Boston and contends that
the level of legal argument practiced in Massachusetts prior to the
Revolution was much less provincial than previously assumed. Volume
2 also includes a new transcription of the journal Quincy kept on a
1773 trip to the southern colonies undertaken on behalf of the
Boston Committee of Correspondence to assess the depth of
commitment to the patriot cause there, in which Quincy comments
tartly on southern manners, womenfolk, and the institution of
slavery.
Providing readers with the unusual opportunity to enter into the
extraordinary mind of a patriot immediately before the Revolution,
the ""Portrait of a Patriot"" series presents the major papers of
the Boston lawyer and patriot penman Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775).
In volume 2 of the series, we are introduced to Quincy's ""Legal
Commonplace Book""; the companion of his ""Political Commonplace
Book"" from volume 1, the Legal Commonplace Book illustrates the
systematic program of reading through which aspiring young lawyers
learned their trade in colonial New England. In the accompanying
introduction, coeditor Daniel R. Coquillette explains how the
system of legal apprenticeship worked in Boston and contends that
the level of legal argument practiced in Massachusetts prior to the
Revolution was much less provincial than previously assumed. Volume
2 also includes a new transcription of the journal Quincy kept on a
1773 trip to the southern colonies undertaken on behalf of the
Boston Committee of Correspondence to assess the depth of
commitment to the patriot cause there, in which Quincy comments
tartly on Southern manners, womenfolk, and the institution of
slavery.
Successful Boston lawyer, active member of the Sons of Liberty,
and noted political essayist, Josiah Quincy Junior (1744-1775) left
a lasting impression on those he met--for his passion in the
courtroom as well as his orations in the Old South Meeting House,
and for his determination to live fully, despite being afflicted
with a disease that would cut his life short. Gathered in this, the
sixth and final volume of the Quincy Papers, are Quincy's surviving
correspondence, his essays for the Boston press written between
1767 and 1774, and his 1774 pamphlet "Observations, " which was the
culmination of his thinking and writing about the problem of
balancing imperial authority and colonial liberty. He represented,
as well as any of his longer-lived contemporaries, the difficulty
of protesting British policy without turning on Britain itself, the
uneasy blending of reasoned political discourse with a desire to
denounce perceived injustice, and the quest to find a peaceful
solution and yet reserve the right to use force if all else failed.
In his attempt to define and defend American rights, he borrowed as
readily from classical sources as modern, drawing on a rich
philosophical and legal tradition that served him well throughout
his public life. He well understood the power of the ideas that he
mustered for political debate. That understanding also shows
through in Quincy's other writings, from his law commonplace book
and Latin legal maxims (in volume 2) to the journal of his 1773
southern journey (in volume 3) to his still-cited reports for cases
argued in the Massachusetts Superior Court from 1761 to 1772 (in
volumes 4 and 5).
This last volume stands as a companion piece to the first.
There, Quincy's political ideas are discussed and traced, in part
through Quincy's political commonplace book, compiled between 1770
and 1774. Here, readers can follow how Quincy expressed those ideas
in the newspaper pieces and pamphlet that became an essential part
of the debate over rights in the empire. Here too can be found his
deep concern, expressed in letters from London to his beloved wife,
Abigail, that he serve Massachusetts--"my country," as he called
it--well, that he give his last full measure of devotion, if
necessary, to the patriot cause.
Distributed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Providing readers with the unusual opportunity to enter into the
extraordinary mind of a patriot in the period immediately preceding
the Revolution, the Portrait of a Patriot series presents the major
papers of the Boston lawyer and patriot penman Josiah Quincy Jr.
(1744-1775). In this, the third of five volumes, we meet Quincy as
a rising member of the Massachusetts bar and a member of the Boston
Committee of Correspondence, making a tour of the Southern colonies
to assess the depth of commitment to the patriot cause there. While
cautious of the political leanings of his hosts, Quincy was clearly
dazzled by the opulence and sophistication of
late-eighteenth-century Charleston society. As he traveled
northward, he continued to record candid observations on Southern
manners, womenfolk, and the institution of slavery in his journal,
thus creating a unique portrait of American society on the eve of
the American Revolution.
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